Ti3C2 MXene co-catalyst on metal sulfide photo-absorbers for enhanced visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production
10.1038/ncomms13907
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Abstract

AbstractScalable and sustainable solar hydrogen production through photocatalytic water splitting requires highly active and stable earth-abundant co-catalysts to replace expensive and rare platinum. Here we employ density functional theory calculations to direct atomic-level exploration, design and fabrication of a MXene material, Ti3C2 nanoparticles, as a highly efficient co-catalyst. Ti3C2 nanoparticles are rationally integrated with cadmium sulfide via a hydrothermal strategy to induce a super high visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production activity of 14,342 μmol h−1g−1 and an apparent quantum efficiency of 40.1% at 420 nm. This high performance arises from the favourable Fermi level position, electrical conductivity and hydrogen evolution capacity of Ti3C2 nanoparticles. Furthermore, Ti3C2 nanoparticles also serve as an efficient co-catalyst on ZnS or ZnxCd1−xS. This work demonstrates the potential of earth-abundant MXene family materials to construct numerous high performance and low-cost photocatalysts/photoelectrodes.

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Ran, J., Gao, G., Li, F.-T., Ma, T.-Y., Du, A., & Qiao, S.-Z. (2017). Ti3C2 MXene co-catalyst on metal sulfide photo-absorbers for enhanced visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production. Nature Communications, 8(1).

Authors 6
  1. Jingrun Ran (first)
  2. Guoping Gao (additional)
  3. Fa-Tang Li (additional)
  4. Tian-Yi Ma (additional)
  5. Aijun Du (additional)
  6. Shi-Zhang Qiao (additional)
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@article{Ran_2017, title={Ti3C2 MXene co-catalyst on metal sulfide photo-absorbers for enhanced visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production}, volume={8}, ISSN={2041-1723}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13907}, DOI={10.1038/ncomms13907}, number={1}, journal={Nature Communications}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Ran, Jingrun and Gao, Guoping and Li, Fa-Tang and Ma, Tian-Yi and Du, Aijun and Qiao, Shi-Zhang}, year={2017}, month=jan }